Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, and University Health in San Antonio today announced a strategic contract to modernize and standardize patient monitoring through Philips’ ...

The failure of hospital caregivers to respond to medical alerts is often attributed to “alarm fatigue” — the idea that nurses or doctors can become desensitized to the nonstop cacophony of beeps that ...

Constantly beeping alarms from devices that monitor the vital signs of the critically ill have “desensitized” hospital workers who sometimes ignore the noise, leading to at least two dozen deaths a ...

A study, published in JAMA pediatrics, examined the factors that affect response time to physiologic monitor alarms among nurses in a hospital medical unit. Researchers investigated nurse response to ...

Hospital alarms are currently ranked as the "top medical technology hazard" within the United States. On average, there are about 480,000 patients in hospitals — each generating about 135 clinical ...

The hospital is flush with alarms. One study done at The John Hopkins Hospital identified 59,000 alarm conditions during a 12-day period—or a staggering 350 alarms per patient per day. With all these ...

Postoperative respiratory compromise represents a significant health care burden in terms of increased morbidity and mortality along with increased length of hospital stay and cost of care.

AURORA, Colo. — A patient died at the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center in Aurora after the technician monitoring their vitals changed their alarm settings and placed a communication device on ...

An alarm is being raised about hospital alarms. A hospital accrediting group says workers have been "desensitized" by the constantly beeping alarms from devices that monitor the vital signs of the ...